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Tipu Sultan
Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799
For other uses, see Tipu Sultan (disambiguation) and Tipu (disambiguation).
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Portrait of Tipu Sultan, from Mysore (c. 1790–1800). | |
| Independent | 10 December 1782 – 4 May 1799 |
| Coronation | 29 December 1782 |
| Predecessor | Hyder Ali |
| Successor | Krishnaraja III (as Maharaja of Mysore) |
| Born | (1751-12-01)1 månad 1751 Devanahalli, Kingdom of Mysore (present-day en delstat i indien, India) |
| Died | 4 May 1799(1799-05-04) (aged 47) Srirangapatna, Sultanate of Mysore (present-day Karnataka, India) |
| Burial | 5 May 1799 Gumbaz, Srirangapatna, present-day Mandya, Karnataka |
| Wife | Ruqaya Banu Begum (m. 1774)Khadija Zaman Begum (m. 1796; died 1797) |
| Issue | Shezada Hyder Ali, Ghulam Muhammad Sultan Sahib an • Contributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhD The year 1799 marks a watershed on the Islamic calendar. It was the year that Napoleon landed his troops in Egypt. It was also the year that the British stormed the Fort of Srirangapatam, and the curtain fell on Islamic rule in India. The first event, the landing of French troops in Ottoman Egypt, confirmed the superiority of European arms and organization over the Ottomans. The second, the fall of Mysore, completed the political implosion of India and the consolidation of the British Empire. British arms did not conquer India. It fell apart through its own internal divisions and was handed over to the British by individual traitors. Tippu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore in South India as a contemporary of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Louis XVI, George III and Napoleon Bonaparte. In more ways than one, the paths of these historical figures crossed those of Tippu. It is an irony of history that the triump • Tippoo SahibTippoo Sahib or Tipu Sahib (both: tĬp´ōō sä´hĬb), 1749–99, Indian ruler, sultan of Mysore (1782–99); son and successor of Haidar Ali. He fought in his father's campaigns against the Marathas and the British but, after his succession, made peace with the British in 1784. His invasion (1789) of Travancore, a state under British protection, provoked war anew, and in 1792 he was defeated by a force under Lord Cornwallis composed of British, Maratha, and Hyderabad troops. He was forced to cede territory. In 1798, Tippoo formed a vague alliance with the French, which gave the British governor-general Lord Wellesley a pretext to invade Mysore in alliance with the nizam of Hyderabad. Tippoo was killed (May, 1799) defending his capital at Shrirangapattana. His kingdom was divided among the victors. See M. Hasan Khan, History of Tipu Sultan (1951); biography by D. M. Forrest (1970). The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. |